LGBTQ news and entertainment
Opera meets pop when 17-year-old Jonathan and 16-year-old Charlotte sing together. But can the duo convince Britain’s Got Talent Judges they’ve got what it takes to wow the nation?
The answer is a resounding ‘yes.’
Wow. Jonathan bowls the audience over with his amazing 17 year old voice, and the two together are clearly beautiful music together.
Bonus points for Jonathan: “We’ve come on here as a duo, we’ll stay as a duo.”
Celebrate.
I was lucky to attend the dress rehearsal of this production at Lincoln Center a few years ago. Perfect casting, perfect music.
I just had to hear this today. Can you believe how gorgeous this is?
Paul Groves (Candide)
Kristin Chenoweth (Cunegonde)
Sir Thomas Allen (Dr. Panglos)
Jeff Blumenkrantz (Maximillian)
Patti LuPone (The Old Lady)
John Herrera (Governor, Prefect)
Check out the DJ for The Biz – DJ Jason Davies. Ok, any questions?
Jason is also a performer at Le Rêve, one of the sexiest, most sensual mega-shows in Las Vegas at The Wynn, in case that gives you an idea of how hot the music will be at The Biz.
Check out The Biz tomorrow night at Share Nightclub in Las Vegas. Promises to be the place to be.
“NOM’s underhanded attempts to divide will not succeed if Black Americans remember their own history of discrimination. Pitting bigotry’s victims against other victims is reprehensible; the defenders of justice must stand together.” – Julian Bond, Chairman Emeritus, NAACP
I’ve been following Matt Nathanson since his breakout platinum selling “Come On Get Higher.”
His songs have been featured on major TV network shows like NCIS, Private Practice, One Tree Hill and Scrubs.
I just dig his sound, talent and vibe.
When not touring on his own – which is a lot – he’s been opening for huge artists like Kelly Clarkson.
Just discovered a series of videos shot by famed photographer Bruce Weber apparently for Abercrombie & Fitch.
The stills below are from a video called “Other Sports Require One Ball, Wrestling Requires Two.”
You can watch the whole video by visiting the Bruce Weber site here.
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On April 10, Glee welcomes White Collar hunk Matt Bomer as “Cooper Anderson” – the older brother of Darren Criss’ Blaine, and TVLine has an exclusive first look at the siblings in mid-reunion.
The Anderson brothers are set to perform a mash-up of classics from ’80s supergroup Duran Duran in the episode, which is appropriately titled “Big Brother.”
Responding to the growing controversy about the National Organization for Marriage’s plans to pit African Americans against gays to create tensions in order to achieve their goal of denying equal rights to gays, NOM president Brian Brown today acknowledged and admitted to using marriage equality as a “wedge” between the two communities:
Gay marriage advocates have attempted to portray same-sex marriage as a civil right, but the voices of these and many other leaders have provided powerful witness that this claim is patently false. Gay marriage is not a civil right, and we will continue to point this out in written materials such as those released in Maine. We proudly bring together people of different races, creeds and colors to fight for our most fundamental institution: marriage.
Everything in this statement confirms the strategy of using people of color as spokespeople and using the language of “civil rights” as a catalyst for division.
Brown’s statement was issued in response to the revelation that NOM has based stategies against the LGBT community for years by attempting to “drive a wedge” between gays and the black community. From their own documents recently made available:
“The strategic goal of this project is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks—two key Democratic constituencies. Find, equip, energize and connect African American spokespeople for marriage, develop a media campaign around their objections to gay marriage as a civil right; provoke the gay marriage base into responding by denouncing these spokesmen and women as bigots…”
The freedom to marry is a civil right, crucial to same-sex families’ ability to pursue life, liberty, and happiness just as all families do.
More than six months after official repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” gay pride events at military academies are cropping up, the Associated Press reports:
Cadets in uniform at Norwich University, the nation’s oldest private military academy, participated Monday in sessions about handling bullying and harassment as part of the school’s first gay pride week. The events are believed to be the first of their kind on a military campus.
Until last year, only a select few at Norwich knew of the sexual orientation of Joshua Fontanez, 22, of Browns Mills, N.J., a past president of the student government who quietly laid the groundwork for the school’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning and Allies Club, which held its first meeting the day the law ended.
“The aspects of my sexual orientation, how that played in the military, that was something I was willing to sacrifice, being open versus serving my nation,” Fontanez said. “It’s something I feel I was truly called toward and truly loved, so it’s great that I don’t have necessarily to make that sacrifice.”
Similar groups have formed at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
For many of the newly open student leaders, the changes brought by the end of “don’t ask, don’t tell” haven’t overwhelmed, despite the years-long political wrangling that culminated in the policy change.
“It was definitely a big change, but it happened over such a long period of time for me that it didn’t seem like that big of a deal,” said Coast Guard Academy Senior Chip Hall, 21, of Monterrey, Calif.
The West Point Spectrum, modeled after the Coast Guard organization, is being formed with little fanfare.
“Everyone has been very professional here at the academy,” said West Point Cadet Andrew Fitzsimmons, 19, a sophomore from Algonac, Mich. “It’s been a very positive environment.”